It was brought to my attention that there might be some confusion over the title of this page, my use of the word shop in the title. None of the guitars on this page are for sale! This is a section featuring the equipment that I own and use in Catfish Flats. My apologies for any misunderstanding the title may has caused.
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Live setup 2008: |
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Live Effects 2008: Guitar>PedalworX modded Vox Wah>A/B switch for output mute>PedalworX McFuzz Hybrid Hot>Landgraff Dynamic Overdrive>Xotic AC Booster >Line 6 RotoMachine>Radial BigShot ABY switch >Amps |
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The Bassman combo and my '65 VibroChamp |
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Live Rig 2007: Weber MASS Attenuator Peterson VS1 Tuner |
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Studio setup: This is my basic rig for the Catfish Flats record. For solos and crunchy rhythm parts I use the Bassman turned up to 10 and the Mesa Blue Angel on 6 with my Landgraff overdrive. The Fender has such a great sound. Clarity with balls. The Landgraff/Mesa combination gives me a fatter tone with more sustain and mids. I play through both amps, record each to a seperate track and then alter the blend in the mix to get the tone I need. If I need a clear, punchy rhythm sound I will use more of the Fender. For slide I will pull in more of the Mesa. For clean tones I will use both amps set on about 5. I'm also using the Line6 RotoMachine in stereo with both amps for some really cool Leslie tones. I am also using my '65 Fender VibroChamp plugged into the 2-12's in the Bassman cabinet for some tremolo parts. |
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Slides |
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Slides Left to Right: Delta Slider Wine Bottle Slide(currently my favorite for electric), two homemade wine bottle slides, the Rockslide(a very nice, comfortable metal slide), Dunlop glass |
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Guitar Rack 6-23-06 show L-R: Supro Sahara (G tuning), Samick Ray Benson, Homebrew Tele (E tuning), '57 RI Strat, '57 RI Les Paul Custom |
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'57 Reissue Les Paul Custom with Tim White Humbuckers |
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Gibson '57 Reissue Les Paul Custom
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'67 Gibson ES335
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Silvertone w/ '60's Musicmaster neck
G-tuning I purchased this one from my good buddy and extraordinary guitarist Steve Gunter. He pulled it out of the back seat of his car and asked if I was interested. It had 4 rusty strings, was setup left handed and had a half inch of funk on it. I hit one note on it and knew I had to have it. Someone put a '62 Musicmaster neck and bridge on the guitar before Steve got it. Apparently there was a method to their madness because the guitar sounds better than any other Silvertone of this model that I have played. And I've owned a number of them over the years. I currently use it as my G-tuning guitar and play it for a good part of every Catfish Flats gig. Here is a clip of us doing "Walkin' Blues Live" with this guitar. "Song For Annie D" was done in my studio using the Silvertone and my Fender VibroChamp amp. Walkin' Blues Song For Annie D Mesa Blue Angel 4x10" combo Weber C10N speakers |
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Silvertone Close-up |
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Eastwood Sidejack My new Eastwood Sidejack. This guitar is based on the Mosrite instruments made by Semie Mosley and made famous by The Ventures. I had a similar instrument, a Univox HyFlier, during the early '70's and always wanted another instrument of this type. I had seen the model at MyRareGuitars and was intrigued. A friend called me and informed my that there were 3 of these gold Sidejacks available at an incredible deal as they were discontinuing the gold finish. So I took a chance and was totally knocked out. I would have been impressed with the instrument at 3 times the cost. It has a beautiful finish with a very nice rosewood fingerboard, a great feeling neck and an incredible P90 tone. |
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Eastwood Sidejack detail. |
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Valley Arts/ Samick Ray Benson Tele
This is a signature model for the lead vocalist/guitarist for Asleep At The Wheel. Nice versatile guitar with a cool state of Texas pickguard. A gift from my very dear friend Brent Burns
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Ray Benson Tele Body Close-up |
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Ray Benson Tele Live Close-up |
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Home-brew Telecaster I purchased this Tele from a former bandmate around
1987. A friend of his had assembled it for him. I have used it on almost
every gig since. For years it was a dedicated G tuning guitar. I played
this guitar on a number of tunes on the Mr. X album. Later while I was
with the Andy Smith Band I started playing it in standard tuning and
the guitar found its way onto a majority of the songs on the album I
did with them. |
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Home-brew Telecaster with Fralin Blues Pickups E-tuning |
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'57 Reissue Strat I purchased this guitar new in late '83 or early
'84. I have used it on almost every gig I have done since and all the
wear on the guitar was self inflicted. I have used this guitar in one
way or another on every album project I have ever done. I have used
a dozen different sets of pickups and 4 different bridges over the years.
It is now setup more or less like a stock Strat and in the 20+ years
I've played her, she has never sounded better.
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Strat Close-up |
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Strat Close-up |
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'57 Reissue Strat |
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1957 Fender Musicmaster This is a cool, very light comfortable guitar. The original pickup was gone when I got it so I put a Strat pickup in. Cool gold anodized pickguard. I've been using it in G-tuning lately. |
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Early '60's Supro Sahara Fiberglass body with one loud and mean single coil pickup. Used in G tuning. Missing pickguard. |
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2000 Martin HD28 |
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1930's Aloha Acoustic Built by the Aloha Musical Instrument Company in Chicago. I got it with the original case that contained the orignal bill of sale. It was purchased in 1939 for $39 and the buyer paid a dollar a week on the guitar. The receipt has a record of each payment. Also include were 2 'vintage' Bravo brand strings. |
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Late '50's Silvertone Aristocrat 17" Archtop |
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Silvertone Aristocrat body closeup |
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Silvertone Aristocrat headstock closeup. Is that cool or what? |
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Danelectro 3 pickup Reissue This is one of the reissues that came out 8 or 9 years ago. John at MMI in Mobile had a couple of dozen of them, some single cutaway, some double, in the two and three pickup varieties. I played a whole bunch of them and this was the best sounding of all of them. The fact that it is purple sealed the deal. These are fun, great sounding guitars and I play it around the house all the time. |
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National StyleO I love this guitar more every time I play it. I used it all over the Catfish Flats album. Played mostly in D tuning. Here's a tune from our debut album that features the National. Airport Blues |
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National StyleO |
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Musicman SUB 5 Bass I had been in the market for a good studio bass for some time. I've always loved Musicman basses and when this one came up for sale I grabbed it. These has the perfect marriage of a classic Fender bass tone and with active electronics you have the option of a modern high fidelity type of tone. I would have preferred the 4 string variety, I don't really use the low B string much, but this one became available and I couldn't resist. |

George uses guitars by Gibson, Fender,
Martin, National, Eastwood, Supro, Musicman and Takamine, Mesa Boogie and vintage Fender amps,
Marshall cabinets, speakers by Weber VST and Celestion, hardware from Pigtail Music, effects by John Landgraff,
PedalworX, Line 6, Xotic and HBE, and single coil pickups from Fralin, Lollar and Fender.
George
uses humbucking pickups by Tim White. There are none better.
Tuning by Peterson strobe tuners.
George's studio uses Cakewalk Sonar 7 Professional, a Tascam DAW control interface and monitors by M-Audio.
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